Chaos Group, a leading provider of state of the art rendering solutions for the media, entertainment, and design industries, has released V-Ray 3.40.03 for 3ds Max 2017, is the most complete lighting, shading and rendering toolkit on the market, making speed and simplicity accessible to all artists. This release to V-Ray for 3ds Max 2017 introduces CPU and GPU-accelerated denoising. Now you can autmatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.

Release notes:

Modified Features
VRayVolumeGrid
- Added channel data interval information to the cache info
- Create default lights for the GPU preview if there are none
- Rename "Analytic" scattering to "Approximate"
Bug Fixes
V-Ray
- 3ds Max was crashing when switching focus to it with a radio button active
- Fixed rendering slowdown on the main machine with DR since 3.40.01
- Enabled back running on Windows XP
- It was possible to add empty servers addresses for DR
V-Ray RT
- Color mapping "Affect background" was not exported
- Crash with Ornatrix hairs placed on top of VRayDisplacementMod
- Region rendering with DR was very slow during ActiveShade
V-Ray RT GPU
- Enabled back VRayTriplanarTex for bump, since 3.40.01
- Misplaced bump map with UDIM tiling
- VRayBumpMtl was not working with VRayEdgesTex when the base material also has bump
VRayColor2Bump
- Bump effect was offset
VRayProxy
- Preview meshes were not loading when opening scenes with XRef scenes in them
VRayVolumeGrid
- Crash when deleting a light that is excluded in the GPU preview list
- Crash when loading a cache while RT is running
- Krakatoa and Stoke MX were using the same frame from the velocity field of imported caches
- Using Self-illumination, results were different according to number of rendering cores

About Chaos Group

Chaos Group creates physically-based rendering and simulation software for artists and designers. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group has devoted the last 16 years to helping artists advance the speed and quality of one of their most important tools. Today, Chaos Group’s photorealistic rendering software, V-Ray, has become the rendering engine of choice for many high-profile companies and innovators in the design and visual effects industries.